Don’t know how intentional the scheduling was, but two of the L.A. Film Festival’s more successful indie films bowed June 14, and both were built around the subject of teenage pregnancy.

“Uncertain Terms” is a drama, with some welcome humor, about a 30-year-old guy (David Dahlbom) who flees his unfaithful wife to get his head together in the woods. Illogically, he chooses to stay at his aunt’s home for expecting girls as a refuge. It isn’t long before two of the five residents set their sights on him. Not as skeezy as it sounds, but the film goes there.

Fortunately, director and co-writer Nathan Silver — who based some of the story on his own mother Cindy’s experience, and who cast her quite well as the place’s proprietor — is more interested in building emotional cases for his characters’ actions than dwelling on their prurient possibilities. The soulful India Menuez nails the richest, most complex role among the girls (and in the entire project). Even the movie’s sketchier parts get good delivery, which makes its sketchier ideas easier to, if not exactly accept, let pass.

Anyway, kudos to Silver for taking big risks, and for the most part making them work.

While Menuez is one of the LA Film Fest’s great finds, another young actress, Haley Lu Richardson, is its queen. After all but single-handedly carrying the dystopian thriller “The Well,” Richardson delivers an astonishingly good 180 as a Pasadena college virgin who gets knocked-up her first time out in “The Young Kieslowski.”

Playing a character totally driven by her heart and hormones but who also manages to be the most sensible person in the story, Richardson lends a kaleidoscopic sense of human reality to what is occasionally a sitcom-glib attempt to make an R-rated afterschool special. And it’s not even her film.

Brian, the title Kieslowski, is another virgin who, after his night with Richardson’s Leslie, goes fantasy-fullfillingly from science nerd to campus superstud in no time flat. Most of the movie is pitched from his point-of-view, and sometimes his yacky imagination’s. Plus, his mom (Melora Walters) has cancer.

Ryan Malgarini is perfectly fine in the demanding role of Brian, who wants to do right by Leslie but is understandably scared and, maybe, just too much of a jerk to reliably come through. But even with less screen time, Richardson commands writer-director Kerem Sanga’s often funny, partially believable comedy. Her only occasional match is James le Gros as Leslie’s hilariously manipulative and sometimes frightening, abortion-minded father.